US EPA

1859015 

Journal Article 

Mutagenicity of cobalt and reactive oxygen producers 

Kitahara, J; Yamanaka, K; Kato, K; Lee, YW; Klein, CB; Costa, M 

1996 

1 

Mutation Research: Genetic Toxicology
ISSN: 0165-1218 

Elsevier 

EMIC/101499 

370 

3-4 

133-140 

English 

8917658 

WOS:A1996VQ57700001 

https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0165121896000420
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Oxidative stress has been implicated in carcinogenesis yet there are chemicals that produce oxidative stress that are not carcinogenic. Mutations are the inherited results of DNA damage and are critical events in carcinogenesis. The mutagenicity of oxidative stress induced by peroxide, paraquat and cobalt compounds was examined in transgenic gpt+ Chinese hamster cell lines (G12 and G10). These two cell lines are known to be more sensitive to mutagens such as X-rays and UV than their parental V-79 cells. In these studies, the mutagenic activity of cobalt chloride, a metal that induces oxidative stress but is not carcinogenic, was measured to be 7.7 times higher than the spontaneous mutant frequency in G12, but was only 1.5 to 2.5 times higher than spontaneous mutant frequency in G10 cells. The mutant frequency of cobalt sulfide was somewhat lower. Hydrogen peroxide was found to be only weakly mutagenic in G12 cells, and treatment of cells with a combination of hydrogen peroxide and cobalt did not alter the mutation frequency induced by cobalt sulfide alone. Paraquat did not elicit mutagenesis in either cell line. These results indicate that agents producing oxidative stress are not necessarily mutagenic and these results are discussed in the context of the oxidative stress produced by other carcinogens such as nickel compounds. 

active oxygen species; nickel carcinogenesis; gpt mutagenesis